Summary Water: 2.75 gallons + water from 8 young thai coconuts Bunches of Greens: 1 (way off base, should be 10-14) Cooked Meals: 5 (way too many) Fasting Days: 2: 24 hour sessions Workout: 10.5 hours Dance: 2 hours (latin) Yoga: 3 hours Walking: 5 hours Strength: 30 minutes Sun: 3 hours Sauna: 2 hrs 15 minutes Home Colonics: 2
Daily Breakdown Friday Sun: none (cold out) Sauna: none Workout: 2 hour walk Water: 80 oz H2o Diet: 1 apple, Chipotle bean & rice burrito extra guac, a few sips of a soy chai latte & rice crispy treat (WAY OFF RAW !)
Saturday– 24 hour fast (from 4:30 pm Friday to 4:30 pm Saturday) Sun: 60 min Sauna: 25 min Workout: 90 min walk Water: 65 oz H20, coconut water from 2 young thai coconuts Diet: fasting 24 hours, broke fast on Chipotle black bean & rice burrito (black beans, rice, corn salsa, guacamole, pico de galo). Not exactly the way I planned to break my fast. 2 apples
Sunday– accidental fast (from 5pm Saturday to 5pm Sunday), home colonic Sun: 60 min Sauna: 40 min Workout: 60 min latin dance Water: 48 oz, water from 2 young thai coconuts Diet: fasted 24 hours (accidentally) broke fast w/ 4 frozen bananas turned into ice cream, 3 apples, couple sips of a margarita, chips, salsa, & guacamole
Monday Sun: none (cloudy) Sauna: 25 min Workout: 2 : 60 min yoga sessions Water: 3 young thai coconut water Diet: 4 frozen bananas turned into ice cream, 4 apples, 4 frozen bananas w/1-2 T cacao powder
Tuesday Sun: none (cloudy) Sauna: none Workout: none Water: 40 oz H2o Diet: 4 frozen bananas + 2 T cacao (blended into ice cream), 3 apples, Au Lac Restaurant: Song salad, soft taco, cali rolls, pistachio “bread”, flax “bread”
Wednesday Sun: none (too cool to lay out) Sauna: 25 min Workout: 60 min latin dance, 60 min yoga, 75 min walk Water: 56 oz. Diet: 5 bananas made into ice cream, apple, Thai: Tom Kah Kai (veggie coconut soup), veggie pad thai, veggie panang w/ rice. I waited far too long to eat and was far from home. I caved into hunger. Plus the 3 hours of exercise just helped me “justify” the calories. I know, it’s lame. I admit it. 🙂
Thursday Sun: 60 minutes Sauna: 20 minutes Home colonic: I always feel like I need to do this after I eat cooked food. It’s like I want it out of my body ASAP. Workout: 30 min Lower body strength training, 30 min walk Lower Body Exercises: 1. Walking lunge 1. leg press on machine, 2. static squat hold against the wall 3. 1 legged medicine ball squat w/ back foot on step 4. slow reverse lunge off step 5. forward lunge on step Ab Exercise: medicine ball crunches w/ extended reach Water: 48 oz H2o, water from 1 thai coconut Diet: 5 bananas + 2 T made into ice cream, 2 cucumbers, 1 bunch of steamed broccoli (plain)
I have been missing my greens this week. Not too sure why, just been eating mostly fruit & laying low on the overt fats.
Friday Evening to Saturday Evening water fast for 24 hours
broke the fast on red wine (biodynamic, organic) not a great way to break a fast Dinner: salad, sauteed carrots & broccoli, a 1/2 C of a rice dish
Sunday 64 oz water 1 young thai coconut water 2 mangoes 5 bananas (ice cream ..no cacao) 5 apples No workout Sun bathed
Monday 64 oz water 1 young thai coconut water 60 min yoga 25 min sauna (too much & blacked out) 25 min sun 7 apples 5 bananas 2 cucumbers Lettuce wraps
Tuesday Core Rhythms..cardio jam, 30 min sun bathe 5 apples 5 bananas Lettuce wraps
Wednesday 64 oz water & water from 2 young thai coconuts 20 min precor, 60 min yoga, 20 min sauna, 60 min sun bathe, 90 min easy walking Diet: 5 apples, Raw Chocolate Ice cream ( 5 frozen bananas & 2 T cacao powder), a few bites of papaya
Today 2 young thai coconut water 1 apple 5 bananas (made into chocolate ice cream …my latest sweet fix) Lettuce wraps (sprouts, shredded carrots, cucumber, tomato wrapped in butter lettuce and dipped into nama shoyu) 3 steamed russet potatoes (plain) 60 min sun bathe 40 min walk
Goal: consistent diet & workouts, 1 fast a week,& not eating late at night.
This looks about where I started, but it just goes to show that fat inches and weight loss can be two different things. As I mention in my video, it’s impossible to lose more than one pound of fat a week. So, I am looking at a slow and natural evolution in my body.
Exercise
My goal is to have fun. I want to enjoy being active not dread working out! I am going simple again with:
walking daily 2-4 miles
sun saluations daily, I want to try this fierce flow ! core rhythms (this was a gift from a friend and I LOVE it). I fall in love with dancing again and again. 🙂
Thanks to Paul (the organizer of an amazing raw food metup group), we are able to see a little of what Happy Oasis shared with us on Saturday. Of course, you hear me ramble about how large the co-op has grown thanks to the dedication of Alexis (mentioned in my last post). It is a bit differnt than a CSA. We don’t pay in advance a lump sum or we don’t belong to only one farmer. If you want more information, please send me a comment and I’ll give more details. Perhaps, I will post a blog on how to set up an organic produce buying club for everyone.
Many are asking about my bikini body progress. Well, I started to feel overwhelmed and too wrapped up in every little thing I ate or did. It started to turn into a stress rather than a fun transformation. I was putting unneeded pressure on myself in order to lose weight. It felt more like a struggle than anything else. So, I needed to take a break and change things up.
Not only was I stressing myself out emotionally, I think my workouts were too high stress for me. I even think that the adrenalin rush I would get from intense workouts were defeating the progress. If the cortosol levels are too high in the body and the adrenals are overworked it will suppress thyroid function. Not good for someone who is already dealing with a slow thyroid. So, I decided to pick up the yoga and drop the hard core boxing and boot camp classes.
I even laid off spinning since it really reduced my range of motion and slowed the progress I was making with yoga. I have been dealing with a considerable amount of low back pain. I have hyper lordosis which simply means my low back is really overly curved. It makes it a bit more vulnerable. I injured a disc 10 years ago and it just seems to be my weak link. However, when my quads and psoas are fully stretched my back pain greatly reduces. So, lunges, splits, warrior 1 and all those similar stretches are rocking out! Plus lots of core work keeps me better aligned.
As I was clearing out old data in my computer today I came across pictures I didn’t realize I had. This is me weighing in at 108. As you know I am a little over 5’5″. Don’t mind the boob slippage. I was laying on my tummy and sat up quickly . I didn’t realize I was doing a “fashion DON’T”. 🙂
I decided to post these anyway since it really got me excited to think of being that size again. When I see these pics , it takes me back to that feeling confident in my body. I am enjoying this process. As long as I stay in this zone I feel energized and not pressured. I am happy to watch my transformation.
I want to stay in a state of excitement and gratitude. I want to be thankful for what I have now and remember how lucky I am to even have a healthy able body. So many people are less fortunate, disabled, or ill and how dare I complain. I am one lucky chick and I look forward to being as healthy as possible.
If you are running through life feeling overwhelmed and not really making the impact you know you want, or wishing you felt alive and filled with passion then you are going to LOVE me!
